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- More than half a million students in poverty could be affected if educational materials are not delivered at the beginning of the 2026 school year.Less than two weeks before the start of the 2026 school year, the Comptroller Generals Office warned that 581,405 schoolchildren in situations of poverty and extreme poverty, located in seven regions of the country, are at risk of not receiving the school notebooks acquired by the Ministry of Production (Produce) in a timely manner due, mainly, to the fact that difficulties have arisen in contracting the transportation and distribution service of material to educational institutions (IIEE).
According to Control Milestone Report No. 004-2026-OCI/5301-SCC, contracts have not been signed to distribute educational material to low-income students of public IIEEs in the regions: Amazonas (62,649 schoolchildren), Ancash (46,216), Cajamarca (216,632), Loreto (142,994), Piura (86 314), San Martin (25,670) and Ucayali (930).
A team of auditors went to the warehouses of the Purchasing Executing Nuclei (NEC) of the National Program Purchases from MYPEru of Produce, located in Lurin, to verify the progress in the distribution of educational material, where it was found that batches of notebooks remain intact in stacked and labeled cardboard boxes, waiting to be transported to the public educational institutions where the school year will begin on March 16.
The history of school kits
Two years ago, the Ministry of Education (Minedu) made a request to Produce for 3,168,962 school notebooks that would be used to assemble 1,074,461 school kits, for the same number of students from 18,336 public educational institutions. Each school kit must contain, among other products, four notebooks if the student is in primary school and three if the student is in secondary school.
Between 2024 and 2025, Produce, through the NEC, acquired school notebooks valued at more than S/ 24.6 million to assemble the school kits and distribute them. According to NEC officials, the acquisition of educational material took longer than expected due to the frequent withdrawals of the winning MSEs (due to lack of operational capacity or limitations to comply with technical specifications), as well as the termination of contracts.
This year, Produce began contracting with freight transportation and school kit distribution companies, by region, before the start of the school year; However, he did not get all the suppliers. As of February 12, when the physical inspection was carried out, 70% (752,412) of the school kits had yet to be distributed in 14 regions of the country, of which seven still did not have a contractor.
More than half needs to be distributed
As of February 28, 61.6% (661,962) of the school kits were pending distribution in 11 regions of the country, including the seven that remain without a supplier for their transportation and that represent 54.1% (581,405) of the total school kits that should be delivered to students in situations of poverty and extreme poverty.
In the regions of Ayacucho (26,132 kits to be delivered), Huancavelica (8,469) and Puno (41,649), the distribution of educational material is being carried out, with the distribution of 47%, 18% and 44% pending, respectively, at the end of February 2026. In the case of Arequipa, the process to distribute 4,307 school kits to the same number of students has already been awarded.
The Purchasing Executing Nuclei have completed the distribution of educational material in nine regions of the country: Apurimac (35,517), Cusco (63,081), Huanuco (53,055), Junin (18,936), La Libertad (83,798), Lambayeque (13,813), Lima Provinces (623), Pasco (21,039) and Moquegua (284).
Immediate actions
The Comptroller Generals Office has communicated the results of the control report to the head of the Ministry of Production so that within a period of five business days it can support the preventive or corrective actions that it will adopt in order to deliver educational material to more than one million students who are in conditions of poverty and extreme poverty.
Lima, March 4, 2026
Communications Management
PRESS RELEASE Ndeg 223-2026-CG/GCOM
